From Merger to Mentorship: Circana's Recipe for Success
with Gemma Harris
Circana
What Circana loves most about Mentorloop:
- Sentiment captures the right feedback, at the right time
- Oversight of the program, having the data at our fingertips
- Smart, efficient matching tools
Connecting Businesses Post Merger
Combining and elevating company culture
Following their merger, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and The NPD Group begin their new chapter together as Circana. Generating meaningful connections between the businesses ensures their unique cultures are both combined and continued.
93% Participant Satisfaction
Positive feedback from mentors/mentees
93% of mentoring participants are enjoying their mentoring relationship and feel they are a perfect match.
Mentorloop Impact Award Winner 2023
We have a consistent feed of reviews and ratings to show the Sentiment of interactions, which motivates others and generates confidence.
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We've had a seamless relationship, keeping it fairly informal. I have found Bushra very easy to speak to; she is open about her goals for the mentorship programme and we keep in touch regularly to ensure I am helping how I can.
Circana MenteeRead More
Helen has been really helpful and friendly. She has been a guiding influence throughout my first 6 months at Circana and encouraged me to always be thinking from an end point/delivery point of view when doing my work. This ensures that the client is getting highly accurate and helpful insights. She helped me to feel at home and welcome straight away. I am also now thinking of becoming a mentor!
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Jason is great. He is always there for me with interesting new stories around insights that help me develop as a professional. He also helps me a lot if I ever need advice with my day to day.
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Through efficient matching tools and resources to structure mentoring relationships, we have shifted the heavy-lifting part of mentoring, getting our people focused on driving their own development and having quality conversations.
Before Mentorloop
At Circana we encourage people to drive their own development rather than leaning on a one-size-fits-all approach, and as a newly merged business, it has become more crucial than ever for people to network and exchange experiences, to strengthen knowledge.
Following our merger last summer of Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and The NPD Group, we are now under the combined brand, Circana.
We wanted to encourage good-quality mentorships, encourage high-quality connections, enable smarter matches, and help people feel a sense of belonging and achievement against their goals through a mentoring relationship
Program Impact
Since 2020, Mentorloop has been helping us form supporting relationships for career, skills, and personal development.
Through efficient matching tools and resources to structure mentoring relationships, we have shifted the heavy-lifting part of mentoring, getting our people focused on driving their own development and having quality conversations. These have been known to grow offline and some people have been connected in a mentorship for a year or longer.
We introduced Onboarding Mentors in the UK to help new starters settle in and get to know the company through someone other than their team, and we are now evolving our program to work on leadership development.
Our mentoring program has helped people push their potential to move from mentee to mentor, and vice versa, squashing myths about the level of seniority someone ‘should’ have in order to give support. We have a consistent feed of reviews and ratings to show the Sentiment of interactions, which motivates others and generates confidence.
Gemma Harris
Circana
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Our mentoring program has helped people push their potential to move from mentee to mentor, and vice versa, squashing myths about the level of seniority someone ‘should’ have in order to give support.
– Gemma Harris, Circana
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